Andrew Paxman

Happy to share that my book Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s, is soon to be published by @UNC_Press Based on interviews with 180 current & former journalists and 6 years of research, it’s the first narrative history of Mexico’s contemporary press 🧵

23 years ago tonight, in an Oval Office address, George W. Bush announced the start of the Iraq War. 4,492 American service members were killed in the years that followed. 32,292 were wounded. At least 200,000 Iraqi civilians died. The humanitarian impact was immense. America wasted 9 years and 3 trillion dollars on a war that never should have happened—a war predicated on a lie, pushed by warmongering neocon politicians, and paid for by everyday people. Imagine what that $3 trillion could have bought here at home. Imagine the decade we could have spent focusing on America, our people, our place in the world. Imagine the lives our service members, stolen from us, would have lived. But instead, the president took us to war. Yet another costly quagmire in the Middle East. I voted against the Iraq War. I knew the White House would lie to Members of Congress and voters alike to manufacture the pretext for a conflict—and they did. Now, Iran is shaping up to be Iraq 2.0—new lies, new bloodthirsty politicians, still paid for by American families. Yesterday, we learned that Trump wants another $200 billion for his war. That's after Congress already gave the Pentagon more money than it even asked for in the budget. Enough is enough. It is not too late to learn from the past. Stop this madness. Bring our troops home. End this war.

“Although President Donald Trump says he has ‘destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability’, the 0% that remains is playing havoc with the global economy.” -The Economist

🔰 Con el auditorio 5B de la UAA lleno, el Dr. Carlos Pérez Ricart de la División de Estudios Internacionales del #CIDE presentó su libro: "La violencia vino del Norte".

Que bella es el @CIDE_RC! Gracias a @APaxman y Hector Nuñez por su hospitalidad y a los profes de la licenciatura y maestria por la oportunidad de hablar con sus estudiantes. Espero regresarme pronto! #orgulloCIDE #Aguascalientes @CIDE_MX

Convocatoria a una plaza de Profesor(a) Investigador(a) Titular en la División de Estudios Políticos del @CIDE_MX (Tenure-track position in Political Science, Division of Political Studies) depcide.org/2026/03/18/con…

@tommysantos14 "The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists." Presidents of both parties have abused this. The pardon power is undemocratic and should be abolished. (On all other points: yes!)

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

BREAKING: French General Michel Yakovleff HUMILIATES Trump for begging Europe to get involved in his Iran War, says that it would be like "buying cheap tickets for the Titanic" after it hit the iceberg. This is beyond brutal... "We have five reasons to say no to him, in fact," said Yakovleff. "So, the first one is that he didn't understand that if he wants to carry out a NATO operation, NATO has to take command. So, there will be an American general, but it's a single operation." “You can’t have an American operation where they’re bombing whatever they can and then below that, the Europeans doing something else,” Yakovleff said. “No, no, no, it has to be one sole operation, under a NATO flag. I don’t think he understood that.” Yakovleff served as a three general in the French Army, was commander of the French Foreign Legion, and served in top positions in NATO. He's a highly respected military expert in France and regularly weighs in on issues of international importance. Trump has been pleading with allied nations to get involved in his Iran fiasco. Iranian missiles and drones have made it impossible for oil tankers to obtain insurance to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's petroleum normally passes. Oil prices are skyrocketing. So far, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have refused Trump's request. General Yakovleff went on to point out that Trump's strategic goals, beyond forcing open the strait, are vague and undefined. If NATO nations were even going to consider involvement, they would need the United States to explain explicitly in writing what the goals are. "And it's not tweets, and it's not things that change every two minutes. So, already there, it's going to be necessary for Trump himself to know what he wants," said the general. He said that there's also the issue of the lack of "confidence" in Trump. It's well-known that he regularly abandons his allies and he could do so here immediately after other nations got involved. “He would let us down whenever it suited him," said Yakovleff. He ended his tirade by comparing Trump to the captain of the Titanic trying to "sell cheap tickets" for his voyage "after having hit the iceberg." “And the last argument is American: you don’t reinforce failure. I learnt that at the U.S. Army War College. You don’t reinforce failure, you move on, you find something else.” he added. "So, there are a lot of reasons to say no." Please ❤️ and share if you think that the Iran War is a total disaster!

Reporter: If you could say something to Trump, what would it be? PA voter: You’re a worthless pile of sh*t. Reporter: How many times did you vote for him? PA voter: 3 times. That was my bad. Apparently I’m an idiot.

Joseph Kent, a top counterterrorism official under Trump, just resigned. Kent and I don't agree on much, but he is right: "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby."

Trump just said this: “I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I wrote it in a book.” Five minutes ago he said his administration was “shocked” that Iran struck Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Nobody expected that. Now he predicted all of it. In the same press conference. This is the man managing the most severe geopolitical crisis since 2003. He predicted Osama bin Laden. He was shocked by Iran. He declared victory 5 times in 13 seconds. He said you could say both when asked if the war was beginning or ending. He said Tomahawks are very generic. He said Iran bombed its own school. $21 billion spent. 14 Americans dead. Oil at $102. Zero allied warships. Taiwan surrounded. The Strait mined. He predicted all of it. He was shocked by all of it. Both. Never stop connecting the dots.

And there it is. A Prime Minister who consults with his team ( which includes experts) versus a President who makes his mind up on his own… dangerous dangerous man.

@onLatinAmerica @FT Congrats, Richard. I'm working on a bio of AMLO. I've ordered yours to get a better idea of how it's done - and how to cram 50 years of political activism into 368 pages!

Delighted to receive this review in the Financial Times. Lula! How Brazil made him — and he remade Brazil ft.com/content/9f7bc9… via @ft

In the latest episode of The Mexpat Interview, a fascinating conversation with Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul @luoach about documenting the work of murdered Mexican journalists and understanding why they are targets. themexpatriate.com/p/mexican-jour…

Here it is again. 16 years old. Amazing cool. x.com/ChiamakaAFC/st…

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Netanyahu led Trump into this horrific & unpopular war. Now he doesn’t know how to get out. Cost so far: • 1,200+ Iranian civilians killed • 13 U.S. troops killed • 3.2M Iranians displaced • 773 killed in Lebanon • 10,000+ Iranians injured • $16.5B spent in 12 days

Presentación de “La violencia vino del Norte” en Aguascalientes con @APaxman y @EdgarGuerraB. Muy orgulloso y agradecido con mis colegas y amigos.

let me get this straight a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner